I came to this conclusion after taking a worthless software engineering class in college. The first semester should be about various project management styles, gathering requirements, using source control, working in teams, contributing to open source, working with large codebases, etc. The second semester should be a sort of independent study with small groups implementing whatever project they came up with in the first course. You won't get any students to do the second semester if they have to implement somebody else's project though. I don't even want to do that when I'm getting paid for it.

I would suggest reading The Black Swan. His basic thesis is that the gaussian methods used to calculate risk in financial markets underestimate the risk by several orders of magnitude. Crashes that happen every couple of decades are considered to be once in a million year occurrences by these methods. He made his money in the crash by betting against this. He assumes that he has no clue when a crash will happen, only that the risk is much greater than the vast majority of the market thinks. Everybody else thinks it will never happen, overextend themselves, and when the crash comes he takes their money. He did it in the 80's too.

I would think that the economic benefit from the creation of a space tourism industry would benefit you. Of course the FAA regulations aren't a direct part of that, but they are a step. So, congratulations! Your tax dollars are at work here and it very well could benefit you and your family.